Aberglasney Gardens in Carmarthenshire held the 2013 Daffodil Festival, with over 350 varieties on show, including the "Katherine Jenkins" daffodil.

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Jim Hosking, a daffodil farmer, has found that as unemployment has dropped in Cornwall, the local labour pool has dried up.

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Welsh men and women traditionally mark St David's Day by wearing a daffodil or the image of a leek in their lapels.

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Individual flowers were hand-cut from lace and hand-engineered on to ivory silk-tulle to create a design that incorporates the rose, thistle, daffodil and shamrock.

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The flower's showy purple and green petals are similar to a daffodil in appearance, spreading more than 2.5 inches, with up to 20 blooms on one plant.

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The Daffodil county signed big-name Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait specifically for their T20 campaign as they targeted the shortest form of the game due to the potential prize-money and commercial riches.

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The Daffodil county have not won a division two game since early August, suffering a defeat to Middlesex before drawing their concluding three four-days fixtures of the season to Sussex, Surrey and finally Derbyshire.

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The 352 hectares (870 acres) of woodland is said to be home to not only protected species such as the dormouse, but 75 species of birds, 23 species of native butterflies, the wild daffodil, wood anemone and enchanters' nightshade.

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